Ill Quotes

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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for… — Aristotle
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. — Jane Austen
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon
For better or ill, I was very heavily influenced by men I knew who always dressed formally. — Alec Baldwin
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. — Honore de Balzac
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing. — Albert Bandura
I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference. — Roseanne Barr
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of… — James Truslow Adams
No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant. — Joe Barton
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. — Charles Baudelaire
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain. — Henry Ward Beecher
We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's… — Annie Besant
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble. — Aeschylus
It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill. — Aeschylus
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually. — Aeschylus
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a… — Aeschylus
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. — William J. Brennan
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive… — Jean de la Bruyere
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. — Edmund Burke

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